For developers, compared to the dazzling source, open source licenses made us crazy. All kinds of obscure terms, involves not only an understanding of English, as well as more specialized knowledge of the law, the vast majority of people, the threshold is very high.
However, selecting a suitable license for open source projects are very important to the project authors, users of open source projects is equally important. Because open-source license is a legal license. Through it, the copyright owner explicitly allowed, the user is free to use, modify and share copyrighted software. The open-source software without a license, equivalent to retain the copyright, you can only look at the source, can not use, a use would infringe copyright ( license basics of literacy ).
So if we want to open source software, it must be explicitly granted to the user of open source licenses. At present, the internationally recognized open source license total more than 80 . Their common feature that allows the user free to use, modify, share source code, but have their own conditions of use.
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In order to facilitate the authors to choose the right license for their own project, Gitee on-line licensing guide function, we will open warehouse without a permit prompt, as shown below:
You can license wizard, answer a few questions, given by the system most appropriate license (based on ratings) are available, as shown below:
In addition, when we visit a warehouse without a license, you will be given a warning prompt as follows:
For a warehouse without a permit it, without the author's permission, only for learning and not for any other purpose!
So, when you find the code without a license, your choices are:
- Contact the author and ask for instructions license
- Do not use this code to find other licensed alternatives
- In consultation with the author an exclusive license
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The launch of the open source licenses selector has been the open source community strongly supported.
Open source code is open only a first step.
We hope this feature, so that more developers are familiar with open-source license, to protect their own rights and interests, regulate the development and use of open source projects.
Next, we will continue to optimize the properties, welcome to give us advice.